Picture Book: Selected Insects (Ehon mushi erabi)

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c.1753-1806)

1788

Medium

Color woodblock printed books, two volumes

Classification

Book

Dimensions

27 × 18.3 cm (10 11/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Culture

Japan

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Frederick W. Gookin Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ukiyo-e: pictures of the floating world
• Books and manuscripts
• Animals
• Children's book illustration
• 1700s
• Japan
• Orange